It's only this hard precisely BECAUSE Apple held onto the dock connector for so long, giving time for an absolutely enormous ecosystem to develop around it. The dock connector came in 2003 and has been kept across multiple generations of multiple product lines. Say what you will about proprietary connectors, but no other phone connector "standard" has lasted anywhere near that long.

if everything you posted in the last page is true, then I (and many others) will be ok for 75-90% of our usage anyway. not great, but acceptable, and certainly not a catastrophe. thanks for the info.

I just preordered mine this morning (64gb black). $500 bucks upgrade on my second line so I don't lose unlimited data on my line. Then again, I can't jailbreak It when it comes in, so I can't tether anyway - talk about a catch 22.

I'll be testing it fully to see what works and what doesn't. I don't see why an extension that plugs into the snap in and converts the 30 pin to the 8pin lightning connector wouldn't work.

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"There are only 10 kinds of people in the world; those that read binary, and those that don't."

My text messages popping up in my screen? Great new way to crash the car!! It's gonna happen sooner or later to someone here! People never crash texting in their cars.

Fortunately they don't actually pop up. iDrive just shows the little envelope icon in the upper-right corner of your nav display (or top status bar if you're in a different view) and it's up to you go to your Messages to see it. And if you're going to check a text anyway, better via iDrive than whipping out your phone IMHO.

But yes, that's why I disabled emails -- plus I waste enough of my life dealing with email as it is and I don't want them poisoning the fun I have driving my car.

My text messages popping up in my screen? Great new way to crash the car!! It's gonna happen sooner or later to someone here! People never crash texting in their cars.

I understand where you're coming from however you could always let the idrive read out the text message for you. It's no different than changing the radio or selecting a song from your playlist. I do find it alot safer than having to whip out my iphone seeing how it's almost always connected to the extremely short Y cable for music in the armrest.

FYI: iPhone 5 works perfectly with BMW Apps and my 2012 E92 M3, Combox firmware 3.5.4 . The biggest improvement that I could see was the inclusion of LTE... connecting to a BMW Apps Web Radio station is so fast now compared with the 4S 3G that it is not even funny.